Management Identities in Transition
A Case Study from Further Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3380828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nafsika Alexiadou (0000-0002-8731-4728, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412-435 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00339 |
| OpenAlex | W2155991328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 15 |
Since the mid-1980s, Further Education has experienced deep transformations as the result of market driven reforms and the emergence of 'new managerialism' in the sector. The changes affected its governance, purpose, organisation and culture, and had deep influence on the relations and identities in the workplace. This paper explores the response of managers in selected Colleges of FE in England, and their discursive construction of new work identities. It is argued that in mediating the reforms, managers adopt a range of responses and position themselves differentially to the discourses of 'managerialism' and the 'market'. From enthusiastically adopting entrepreneurial management, to resisting, or quietly re-constructing vocabularies and practices to fit traditional models of professional practice, the managers in this study illustrate the contested nature of implementing reforms in the public sector, and the complex interplay between agency and institutional practice
Agency (philosophy) · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Managerialism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance) · Public relations · Public sector · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law · Public Administration · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Sheep, Shadows and Silly Saints
Place, Space and Time
Reluctant Leaders
Management of Workplace Change in the Australian Higher Education Sector
Zealotry or Nostalgic Regret’? 1 Women Leaders in Technical and Further Education in Australia
Globalisation and Its Educational Discontents
Treat me as a human being—don’t look at me as a woman’
On Becoming a Social Housing Manager
The Mechanics of 'Failure' in Further Education
Conditions of domination
Facing Inwards and Outwards at Once
Playing' Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service
Inbound, outbound or peripheral
Work Self and Society
Education reform
Management Lives
The Free Economy and the Strong State
The Managerial State
Researching policy implementation
Researching policy implementation
Public Policies, Private Strategies and Local Public Spending Bodies
The Invisible Gendered Subject
Managing Ambiguity
Carrying the Burden of Transformation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2013 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |